Jan 9 2014
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The Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news again, but surprisingly not as a sports metaphor for a patsy…
Dec 3 2013
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The insane ending to last week's Iron Bowl had sports fans wondering if any college football game had ever ended in…
Nov 19 2013
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Last month, Kansas City Chiefs fans broke CenturyLink Field's record for world's loudest stadium. Not long ago,…
Nov 13 2013
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The fight for the future fandom of New York's children has finally been memorialized in the instant classic, "Who Do…
Jul 26 2013
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The Ashley Whippet Invitational is the world's premier athletic competition for dogs that excel at catching…
May 10 2013
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So we know who made up the class of 2013 at the Baseball Hall of Fame: no one. Well, OK, the veterans committee…
May 3 2013
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Saturday's UFC card featured one helluva beatdown: Jon "Bones" Jones turned Chael Sonnen into a bloody mess. But at…
Jan 25 2013
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Pat McQuaid, former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has long been at odds with disgraced…
Jan 11 2013
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Slate's Josh Levin attended the Seahawks-Redskins game on Sunday, and, while he saw a lot of genuine RGIII…
Jan 4 2013
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We can understand why so many mediocre bowls line our on-screen guides every December and early January: They're…
Dec 21 2012
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Barça's Lionel Messi scored a lot of goals this year. 86 of them, apparently.* That's a record for a soccer player.…
Dec 14 2012
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Magnitogorsk, Russia. Our kind of town. They've got one hell of a hockey team, with Evgeni Malkin and Nikolai…
Dec 8 2012
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You want to know what conference realignment looks like? We've told you about how it works at bigger schools, but…
Nov 30 2012
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Oh no, oh no, oh no. Not only do the folks at Frito-Lay want to ruin your childhood, they want to ruin baseball too.…
Nov 16 2012
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On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin makes a simple, fair case for why cuddly…
Nov 2 2012
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On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Stefan Fatsis found a place on the internet where…
Oct 26 2012
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We're in a glorious age for placekickers. St. Louis's Greg "The Leg" Zuerlein wows us every Sunday. David Akers hit…
Oct 19 2012
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Olympic basketball is fun. But doesn't it look a little too much like NBA basketball? Sure, the lanes are were…
Oct 12 2012
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Handball: it's not just a sport to watch on CNBC at 7:45 a.m. in early August every four years. Apparently there are…
Oct 3 2012
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This week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast is super-timely. It's got the Red Sox, the Yankees, and…